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Contents:

• FOUR YEARS, TWO NTENTS: A GAY CHE UPLE'S JOURNEY FOR A SURROGATE SON
• BANNED OM MARRYG CHA, GAY UPL TURN TO UTAH’S ZOOM WEDDGS
• GAY CHE UPL MARRY LOS ANGEL
• CHE COURT RUL AGAST GAY COUPLE SEEKG TO GET MARRIED
• CHE GAY UPL GET MARRIED HOLLYWOOD
• LEGAL QUIRK ALLOWS GAY UPL CHA TO GET MARRIED ONLE NSERVATIVE UTAH
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
• CHE COURT RUL AGAST GAY COUPLE SEEKG TO GET MARRIED

FOUR YEARS, TWO NTENTS: A GAY CHE UPLE'S JOURNEY FOR A SURROGATE SON

Li and Xu, a gay uple who have been together sce 2007, would walk out of the airport, get married two days later Los Angel, and, more important, start their journey toward 2015 to 2018, Li and Xu ma four transpacific trips as part of their gtatnal surrogacy procs. They traveled nearly 50, 000 , spent more than $200, 000, and went through untls days of distrs, all to fulfill the dream of havg their own creasg number of Che gay men, like Li and Xu, are travelg thoands of and spendg hundreds of thoands of dollars to pursue a dream that is impossible at home.

Bee gay upl are not allowed to marry or adopt Cha, they started thkg about surrogacy.

Photograph: Courty Quiguang Li and Wei XuFor this story, I spoke to a dozen gay Che men who have begun or pleted surrogacy the Uned Stat. Li says that for many gay men, the strong ph for babi om the elr generatn.

BANNED OM MARRYG CHA, GAY UPL TURN TO UTAH’S ZOOM WEDDGS

Although this ia is unr fierce attack om some Cha’s younger generatn, still ronat wh many young Che people, cludg some gay men who are asked, or volunteer, to have a child to protect the mianzi of their parents and some of the parents, that means gog as far as phg their sons to the surrogacy journey. David Wang, a sgle, gay man of 28, livg the south-wtern provce of Sichuan, says took years for his parents to accept his sexualy after he me out 2013. His patients clu one of the untry’s most fluential gay figur, Ma Baoli, founr of the world’s biggt gay datg app, Blued.

“I have several patients who told me that they me out to their parents after their baby was born, ” says Rgler, who is a gay dad through surrogacy himself.

GAY CHE UPL MARRY LOS ANGEL

Surrogacy was still a total mystery to most of the Che gay muny when Xu and Li started their journey 2014.

On the Che msagg app WeChat, groups for gay dads and future dads have mhroomed. Several Amerin surrogacy agenci and fertily clics told me that they’d seen a surge Che clients, startg around 2013, wh gay people makg up a signifint portn of the clientele. Photograph: Courty Quiguang Li and Wei Xu“Enomic velopment Cha … has created a number of middle-class people, cludg those who are homosexual, ” observ Zhijun Hu, who, unr the noted alias “Ah Qiang”, has been workg as an LGBTQ+ activist Cha for more than 20 years.

CHE COURT RUL AGAST GAY COUPLE SEEKG TO GET MARRIED

Havg an Amerin baby through surrogacy has now bee a popular and accsible life goal for urban gay men day after they ma through ctoms, Xu and Li went to the HRC Fertily Clic Pasana center for sperm llectn.

Most gay upl don’t have this ncern and, sometim, even like the ia of havg mixed-race babi, whose looks are often appreciated Cha. 885 – for every 1, 000 male newborns, there are only 885 femal – rankg last among all 153 untri US agenci and clics nfirm that gay Che tend parents have a noticeable preference for sons, though some note that they see the same preference across gay men of all wanted a son.

Diego tomatilly obtaed US cizenship, and Xu wants him to learn English se he wants to go back at some pot his nsult wh other gay dads about how to look after and te a child. In the Group for Dads of Amerin Babi chat group, they ask qutns about practil thgs like supplements and discs the challeng of parentg, which is still generally viewed as a woman’s duty Zhou, a member of the chat group who is expectg his baby to be born through surrogacy 2020, says that most gay Che parents are particularly eager for rmatn about how to parent.

CHE GAY UPL GET MARRIED HOLLYWOOD

The seven upl married the mass weddg were all om Cha - the wners of a ntt meant to promote the rights of gay people to marry Cha and around the world. Gay marriage is not legal Cha, but there is a growg gay rights movement.

"The progrs that's been ma terms of gay rights, for want of a better word, Cha has been astronomil, " said Geng Le, the CEO of Che gay datg app Blued, which has 15 ln members. Gay marriage may not be legal Cha, but 's beg easier to be gay, they said.

LEGAL QUIRK ALLOWS GAY UPL CHA TO GET MARRIED ONLE NSERVATIVE UTAH

Mayor Horvath, who is jt 32 and has been mayor for jt two months, said she nsirs her job to fight for gay marriage around the world.

Tsai is openly gay.

As a gay celebry, he brgs awarens and normaliz the LGBTQ+ muny Taiwan.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

A urt central Cha has led agast a gay uple seekg to register for marriage. The se has energized supporters of LGBT rights Cha, acrdg to The Associated Prs: "Though was dismissed by the urt Changsha, Cha's first legal challenge to a law limg marriage to oppose-sex upl has galvanized many of the hundreds of young Che gay rights supporters who gathered at the urthoe, some of them wavg small rabow flags.

The wire service adds that "Che society and the ernment have generally owned on nontradnal exprsns of genr and sexualy, but awarens of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr issu is risg.

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

Homosexualy was classified as a mental disorr by the Che Psychiatric Associatn until 2001.

Tears of joy: Touchg moment seven Che gay upl fally break cultural taboo and tie the knot emotnal mass ceremony Hollywood Seven upl got married at Wt Hollywood public library on TudayNewlyweds were wners of an onle petn to promote gay rights Coupl ma vios tellg their stori and public voted for favourGay marriage is not currently regnised unr Che lawHomosexualy was listed as psychiatric disorr the untry until 2001 Gay men and lbians are often prsured to marry oppose sex Cha Updated: 11:32 BST, 10 June 2015. Seven Che gay and lbian upl have tied the knot an emotnal ceremony happy upl were selected om more than 2, 000 that had entered an onle petn aimed to promote gay rights Cha, reported People's Daily marriage and same-sex unns are not currently regnised Cha, where homosexualy was only crimalised 1997.

Gettg hched: Seven Che gay upl tied the knot the Wt Hollywood public library on Tuday You may kiss the groom: One of the gay upl kiss after exchangg their vows the mass ceremonyThe ceremony took place on Tuday morng the Wt Hollywood public library California, where gay marriage beme legal 2013. ' The petn, lled We Do, was set up by Che onle retail giant Taobao, partnership wh gay datg app Blued.

CHE COURT RUL AGAST GAY COUPLE SEEKG TO GET MARRIED

Homosexualy was still listed as a psychiatric disorr as recently as Na, 29, and Xue Meng Yao, 21, the only lbian uple takg part the ceremony, said that they had not even revealed their relatnship to their parents yet. A recent Che survey shows that at least 16 ln Che gay men, roughly the populatn of Chile, are forced to marry women orr to please their parents.

Emotnal: Gay marriage is not regnised Cha and homosexualy was listed as a psychiatric disorr until 2001 Overjoyed: The petn fally gave the upl a chance to make a life-long mment. Acrdg to a UNDP survey 2016, jt 5% of the more than 28, 000 people polled had e out to people outsi of their fai, and ls than 15% had told their crimalised homosexualy 1997 and 2001 was removed om the official list of psychiatric disorrs. At the end of 2015, ntent related to homosexualy was banned on Che televisn the meantime, the Che public has grown more supportive of LGBTQ+ rights.

The gay Che upl were selected as wners of a ntt hosted by ter giant Alibaba.